Limits of supranational justice : the European Court of Human Rights and Turkey's Kurdish conflict

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Kurban, Dilek, author

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"Based on a longitudinal and inter-disciplinary analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) engagement in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, the book makes a significant theoretical and empiric...

"Based on a longitudinal and inter-disciplinary analysis of the European Court of Human Rights' (ECtHR) engagement in Turkey's Kurdish conflict, the book makes a significant theoretical and empirical contribution to scholarship. Through first-time interviews with Kurdish lawyers who have mobilized on behalf of Kurds disappeared, executed, tortured and displaced in the name of counter-terrorism and an analysis of jurisprudence in these cases, the book documents how the ECtHR has undermined its own effectiveness by refraining from making full use of its powers in overseeing Turkey. Bringing together legal, political, sociological and historical narratives, it sheds light to endogenous and exogenous factors which prevented Turkey's transition to democracy and enabled state violence and repression against the Kurds. Based on this wealth of empirical data, the book questions the validity of theories depicting the ECtHR as an effective court. Arguing that effectiveness is best measured with a supranational court's impact in authoritarian regimes, the book calls for a new theoretical approach based on empirical studies of the ECtHR's engagement in hard cases, including but not limited to Turkey."--

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